Hat-fastener.



HAT FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED APR3| 1913.

Patented May 4, 1915.

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nrrnn srafrns .ALFRED CONNOR, OF CAMPERDOWN, NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA..

HAT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May a, isis.

T0 all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALFRED CONNOR, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at No. 23 Kingston road, Camperdown7 near Sydney, in the State of New South Wales and Commonwealth of Australia, railway employee, have invented a new and useful Improved Hat-Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has been specially devised in order to provide an improved hat pin and device for securing ladies hats to the head and hold them firmly in position and which will have no protruding dangerous points.

This improved device insures that the fastening pin will enter the hat at the same point each time and will not therefore destroy said hat by creating a fresh puncture each time it is placed in position and further its parts aiiixed to the hat are easily so affixed and readily changeable to another hat or to other positions on the same hat.

This improved hat pin consists of a suitable pin having a spiral or closely coiled portion of suitable diameter adjacent to. its head and any desired form of head.

This improved device for securing ladies hats to the head comprises a hat pin of the peculiar construction above set forth combined with a short cylinder affixed to the hat for retaining and holding said pin rigidly and further comprises the combination with said pin and cylinder of a peculiar fastening for aiiixmg said tube to the hat and of a cover inside the hat for protecting the hair from said fastening.

The improved hat pin may be of any suitable metal and the suitable diameter of the y spiral portion is such as will not allow the coil to tear or force through the material through which the pin n is inserted. The spiral or close coil is adapted to be passed partially through the material at one side of the hat by being rotated by the wearer in the manner of a screw and to grip that material between two of its coils.

In the improved device the hat pin as above described is preferably blunt at the point though it may be sharpened as o-rdinarily if desired and its retaining cylinder is preferably of metal and of such diameter that the spiral portion of the pin will just fit and turn therein. This cylinder has a projection or abutment piece helically about which the spiral of the pin is adapted to re5 volve and to be retained in position thereby. 'In practice this abutment piece preferably 1s a wire or the like inclined at the same pitch as the spiral across the retaining cylinder. Further if it is desired that the point of the pin should protrude through the opposite wall of the hat a second cylinder is aflixedl at a convenient position thereon to receive said point and cover the same.V The retaining cylinder is afhxed to the outside of the peripheral wall of the hat preferably by means o-f an internal closely coiled gripping spiral which is screwed tightly into and against the hat wall and a cover for this spiral grip is preferably provided inside the hat to prevent the hair becoming entangled with said spiral grip. The covering cylinder is likewise gripped to the wall of the hat by a similar spiral grip externally thereof and forming more or less a portion of the ornamentation. But in order that a practical application of'this invention may be the more easily understood it will now be described aided by reference tothe drawings accompanying and forming part of this complete specification in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of a preferred form of the improved device for securing ladies hats to the head. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 4: a plan of a point guard and point received therein. Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the retaining cylinder and Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation of the same with an internal spiral grip with a cover thereon while Fig. 7 is a perspective view of said cover. f

The pin 13 has a head 14 of any desired suitable form and material and near its head it has integral therewith a spiral 15. It is preferable that the point of the pin extrude slightly a minimum distance. It may however extrude a little and may have a guard.

In the improved device the pin 13 passes through the retaining cylinder 16 whose flange 17 is affixed to the wall 18 of the hat by a closely coiled spiral 19 which is rotated through the hat wall and the wire 20 across the retaining cylinder 16 is a continuation of said spiral grip. The pin 13 is preferably blunt at the point 21 and provided with a guard or covering cylinder 22 which may be more or less ornamented as at 23.V The cylinder 22 is affixed to the wall 18 0f the hat by a closely coiled gripping spiral 24: secured to said tube and inserted in place by rotating as a screw.

In order to prevent the hair from en-y to receive the pin on Whose end are fastening j bars 27 adapted to it under the coils of the spiral 19 or 24 and hold said cover 25 firmly in position. 1 l

vWhat I claim as my invention'and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A hat fastener comprising a headed pin having a spiral adjacent its head, a retaining cylinder adapted to be attached to the outer Wall of the hat to receive and partially house said hat pin spiral, and a closely coiled grip# ping spiral, a covering dome adapted to be arranged on the inner side of said hat and inclosing said gripping spiral, the end of said spiral being adapted to extend through theY hat and transversely said retaining cylinder, said transversely extending end of said spiral being adapted to engage the spiral of said headed pin and retain the pin Within the cylinder. Y

2. kA hat fastener comprising a headed pin having a spiral adjacent its head, a retainingcylinder adapted to be attached to the outer Wall of the hat to receive and partially house said hat pin spiral, a closely coiled gripping spiral adapted tobe ar-' ranged on the inner side of said hat, one

end of said spiral being adapted to extend through the hat and transversely of said refastened upon the inside Yof the hat by en-` gaging With said gripping spiral.

l. Ahat fastener comprising a headed pin having a locking spiral adjacent its head, a gripping spiral, a receiving and retaining cylinder for said first named spiral adapted to be fastened to thev outside of the hat and having an internal transverse bar adapted to engage said locking spiral, and a covering dome adapted to be secured to the inside of said hat by said gripping spiral.

In testimony whereof I yhave signed my name to this specification in the presence of tvvokr subscribing Witnesses.

- Y ALFRED CONNOR. Witnesses:

PERCY NEWELL, I-I. R. HILL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. C. 

